December 7-10, 2009

Oh my... We can not even begin to explain how busy we were this week in our class! We were only able to get 1 "action" shot of the kids. Here it is!We did however take a few quick pictures of the Christmas Crafts that are overtaking our room!

As crazy busy as this time of year is, we LOVE it in our classroom. We can be head to toe in glitter, have just stamped 20 feet and 20 hands, and don't even have time to turn the water off (see above picture) and would not trade our jobs for anything. Thank you so much for sharing your children with us.

Cassie and Jen

November 30-December 3, 2009

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!Our tree looks BEAUTIFUL! Thank you for all of the wonderful ornaments!


Our Unit this week was Brrr...It's cold outside. What a perfect unit for the SNOW that came the end of the week!

We had lots of fun during circle time as we graphed and answered fun Christmas questions!
Our Bible Story this week was The Coat of Many Colors.

In Centers this week we:

Made a birthday cake for Jesus.

We read many Christmas books!

We worked on using scissors while cutting Christmas paper.
We found matching Christmas erasers that were hidden in rice.

We using Christmas cookie cutters while we worked with PlayDough.

We also mixed in some Christmas magic into our PlayDough!
In our Dramatic Play Center, we worked on a Christmas Dinner!

In our Sensory Table we had SNOW! In our Art Center, we created Snowmen from our footprints and we worked on a group painting project to create a tree for our room!

Our Monday/ Tuesday class even had a special visitor poke their head into our classroom :)

Much love,

Cassie and Jen

Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had such a good time discussing all that we have to be thankful for! We have so much to be thankful for! Here are some quick snapshots of our week!

We also celebrated Reed's 3rd birthday!

Be thankful unto Him and bless His name

Psalms 100:4

update on Can Food Drive

Even though we have 2 classes, we get to combine our canned goods and if we win, both our M/T and W/TH class will get an ICE CREAM PARTY.

We are in 7th place :(

November 9-12, 2009

Eric Carle Extravaganza!

(sadly, my camera battery died and I have very few pictures from this week)

This is one of our FAVORITE units! We love so many Eric Carle books, so this unit is a fun unit for us! We read so many books. The children LOVED using the felt pieces to go along with the books Brown Bear, Brown Bear and Polar Bear Polar Bear as we read them.

We think their favorite was The Hungry Caterpillar (because really...who doesn't love this book?) and The Grouchy Ladybug. They thought it was the funniest thing every to hear the ladybug say "Hey you....you wanta fight?"

Our Bible Story this week was A Changed Man from Acts 9:1-19.

In Art this week we made a project for our Thanksgiving Feast we will be having and we worked on our own Hungry Caterpillar as a class project.

Cassie and Jen

Canned Food Drive

His Kids Weekday Preschool will be hosting a Canned Food Drive. All proceeds will be donated to Angels of Light.

This is such an AMAZING mission project.

The class that receives the most cans will receive an ICE CREAM PARTY! A Two Year Old Class has NEVER one this party. Let's show those "big kids" that even though we are the "little ones" we have BIG hearts!

Cassie and Jen

Upcoming Thanksgivng Feast

Our Thanksgiving Feast is coming up fast. They will be held on Tuesday, November 17th and Thursday, November 19th.

This year our Feast will be done entirely different than in the past and different than how we originally told many parents!

We will be enjoying our feast as a school all together! We will be bringing out tables to the preschool lobby for all of the classes to eat together.

We need parents to sign up to help volunteer to make this event a success! If you are available to help, please sign up in Heather's office.

Sign ups are also posted outside our door for items that can be brought to the Feast.

Thursday will be an early dismissal day. There will be NO lunch bunch on this date. Our school will close at 12:30. This is not on the original schedule that you were given.

Normally the Thanksgiving Parties are "in-class" parties, which means we ask that parents do not come. This year, all are invited! Just know, it will be crowded. Also know, that if you come (on Tuesday) we will be asking that you do not leave your child for rest. Two goodbyes in one day can be very confusing and very hard on them.

If you have ANY questions, please just ask us!

Cassie and Jen